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Vive la Revolution

Updated Jan. 19, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

F rench employers are mad as hell, and they're just not going to take it anymore. At least that's the message that the employers federation Medef (Mouvement des Entreprises de France) was trying to send Tuesday, when a massive 95% of the delegates at a plenary meeting voted for the organization's withdrawal from participation in the country's social security system by the end of the year. That system, founded in the aftermath of World War II, controls pensions and health and unemployment insurance. Panicked politicians described the Medef's rebellion against its administrative obligations as a threat to "the...